Anyone know anything about getting a PS3 to play video off an external hard drive? the drive is MBR with a single 256GB FAT32 partition on it (the drive itself is much larger but the rest of it is not being used right now), which is what the internet suggests should be all that's needed for a PS3 to recognise it, but it won't show up. It has a bunch of MP4s on it that were converted with handbrake specifically to be playstation compatible video files

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Sure, we could play them off our computer hooked up to the tv but kinda want to be able to use a remote control? and the PS3 supports that kind of thing, at least when we used it in the past to play BDs and DVDs

actually if anyone knows a good way to use a remote (that could even be a wireless gamepad, even) with VLC, that would work too

Just want a way to easily skip past the opening theme song that's on each and every video, as well as play/pause and stuff

@Felthry I'm fairly sure Kodi supports the PS4 controller as a remote! Would that work?

@IceWolf We're not familiar with Kodi, but we don't have a PS4 controller anyway.

@Felthry It's basically Steam Big Picture for everything except games. :3

I'm pretty sure it supports other controllers too, probably including PS3; my brain just defaulted to PS4 because that's what I've got. *facepaws*

@IceWolf @Felthry It also has a smartphone remote control app (Kore) as well the ability to host a webserver that can host a smartphone remote control webapp.

@Genstar @IceWolf yeah looking into it this is the way to go i think, ps3 doesn't want to work and xbox 360 gets a little further but then shows the drive as unformatted

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